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Old Feb 1, 2023 | 4:33 pm
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Originally Posted by cubeman
Only thing I can assume is the hotels were letting people do mattress runs there and didn't care. Marriott can't stop it so the only way to offset it is to increase the franchise fees by making the mattress runs take twice as long or make it cost enough to mattress run at a US property now.
I suspect the change is aimed at pushing the foreign tourists and business travelers to more premium brands in SA.
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